DUPAGE COUNTY – It was an Illinois Republican in leadership statewide that was a key promoter of Illinois' early plunge abandoning the Electoral College and fortifying the early phases of the anti-Republican conservative popular vote movement nationwide.
An important piece written on Illinois' move to the popular vote rather than the electoral college – something radical 2020 Democrat presidential candidates are advocating – is on Wirepoints today. Mark Glennon writes:
You probably know that many on the left don’t like how the nation elects presidents and that they would like to eliminate the Electoral College system. The elections in 2000 and 2016 still sting, which gave the presidency to George W. Bush and Donald Trump even though they lost the popular vote.
But did you know Illinois was among the first states to pass legislation that may well effectively abolish the Electoral College?
That the legislation is getting very close to the trigger point needed to accomplish that goal?
REWIND to 2008: Meet Illinois' own Republican former Senator Kirk Dillard.
Former State Senator Kirk Dillard, who also served for a while as the DuPage County Republican Chairman, and is now chairman with a lush taxpayer-funded salary of the Regional Transit Authority, explained why he thought Illinois should move away from the Electoral College:
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